One of the reasons I only posted once last week is because of all the work we've been doing in the yard. With the weird off and on weather this year, we just didn't get outside to work on anything until this week. Talk about feeling old! My body was definitely tested this week. I guess I'm getting geared up for the abuse it'll take during trek next month. Here's how it all went. Tuesday evening I weeded everything. The next day I spent pulling up bulbs, rearranging perennials and cutting down the dead stuff. Thursday I bought and planted some annuals and tilled the vegetable garden. And finally, Friday evening we got the vegetable garden planted. We're branching out this year with the vegetable garden. We planted fewer tomatoes, but still have 5 plants. Hopefully that's not a mistake. We always have SOOOO many, but I love them! Then we planted four different squash plants (zuccini, banana squash, butternut squash, and yellow crookneck squash). We also planted cucumber and an eggplant (What am I going to do with eggplant? I don't know? If the plant does well, I'll need some recipes). We also planted cantaloupe, watermelon and honey dew. If they don't do well this year, I'm not going to try them again next year. For some reason, fruit doesn't do as well in our garden. We didn't get around to peas or beans this time because it's too late and they didn't have any starts at the nursery so we decided to try a row of broccoli plants and a couple rows of corn. Then Dylan planted some carrot seeds in the little side boxes of this old bench we have so we'll see how well they do in that weird soil. I told him it was his job to water and weed and help them grow. That'll give him something to help with and keep him from over-nurturing my garden...hopefully. I have Preston, the quick-moving dirt and plant eater for that! Talk about a lot of work, but we're finally caught up. Let's just hope we can stay that way. Here are a couple of no-so-good pictures of our outdoor projects last week.
3 comments:
Wow! That's some major yard work. I'd be sore too. If you have too many tomatoes, you can share the wealth and give some to me. We don't have a garden yet. We finally have some trees though. We've been working hard in our yard too.
-Laura
P.S. That's awesome about Preston being a walker now!
Great job!!! your garden looks great. I hope all the stuff you planted works out. That is always my fear but I have told myself over and over that this year I will be really good about all our plants... we'll see what happens.
Hey, you guys are much more motivated than us. Our garden is still in starter packs and the garden patch is still growing weeds.
Any time you want to come and look at those chickens, feel free :)
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